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First we got Link's Awakening, a Zelda game with some Mario stuff thrown in, and then we were supposed to get this, a Mario game with Zelda aspects. I wonder if they were trying to combine the two somehow.

Exactly. We can't treat this like a schoolyard bully who just wants to make himself feel big, no matter how much the big man acts like it - the government has real power over us, and is already putting legal citizens in foreign prisons to die. This isn't pulling our beards and flicking our faces, this is putting a gun to all of our heads, and pulling the trigger for some.

Everyone already knows all the republicans supported it; anything under their jurisdiction is already a lost cause. What I want to know is how many people from the "left" party can't even keep their own votes on the right side of history. It's not news when villains are villains - it's news when the people who say they're here to fight back against the villains are caught supporting them, and it's important not to drown out that important detail among a bunch of already-known regressives. People need to see that the current democratic party isn't a viable defense against conservativism, and that we need to do something more to get things moving in the right direction again than simply trusting democrats to fix everything.

Fucking hell, this is so sad. As soon as they smashed the window Elsy switched to reassuring her daughter - "Don't worry, everything will be okay. I'm fine." She knew it was over for her and just needed to make sure her daughter didn't do anything to make her get taken too.

It's like someone saw the cucumber eye things and decided to try it on their whole body, but with pickles.

Yeah, and they sold significantly fewer copies because video games weren't a popular household product at the time; they needed a higher markup to make a reasonable profit. Mario Kart 8 sold nearly 76 million copies. Nintendo made well over a reasonable profit on that game even with a significantly smaller markup, and they would easily continue to do so with the subsequent entry at the same price.

Anyone that would stop would've done so well before they got to the point of obscene wealth. Billionaires can only stop hypothetically - the only way to get them to actually stop is through force.

If by "we" you're referring to the American people as a whole, then no, no we don't. So many people I talk to are treating this like just another 4 years of republican shenanigans; I rarely find someone in real life who understands just how close we are to all-out war.

They're in a country full of angry people with guns who have been trained over generations to think that there's no need to use them - that protests will be enough because the only next logical step after that would be violence, and nobody wants that. But really, I don't have a lot of faith that most will actually use them - I know in my heart of hearts that I won't. I think we've been trained to have such faith in our loud bark that we're left completely unable to bite. There are a few individuals who have worked up the courage to take real action, but we'd need a lot more than that to scare the wealthy into playing fair. I hope I'm wrong, but every time I think about taking that next logical step as a result of all the inconsequential protests, I fail to even come close to having the courage to do so, and I don't think I the only one.

I was planning to get a Switch 2 just to keep it at 1.0 and wait for a scene to develop, but even the console alone is a bit out of my price range.

It's true that we evolved in response to an environment, but the actual genetic changes that allowed for that were not developed with purpose. They happened randomly, and the ones that happened to provide a benefit made those individuals more likely to have more kids that those with less beneficial random changes.

Had to make sure Berghain wasn't an art school. It would explain a lot if it was.